The document outlines the goals and mission of the Shift Your Thinking organization, which aims to help children with learning disabilities and their parents. It wants to help children embrace their unique minds, focus on the child's needs, and build on their strengths. The organization also wants to empower parents with research-backed advice and tools to create decision roadmaps. It seeks to offer a hopeful, practical perspective and look at each child's overall well-being rather than just labels or diagnoses. The document also provides details about an upcoming summit on embracing how children learn and cope with learning disabilities or anxiety.

1. W W W . S H I F T Y O U R T H I N K I N G L D . C O M
to have children own and embrace their beautiful
different brains.
the first question to be "What is Best for the Child?"
to break down the shame, confusion, angst and build
on the child's strengths.
parents to know there is no wrong answer – there are
OPTIONS.
to empower parents and caregivers with effective
advice, tools, research around the OPTIONs.
to create a decision roadmap for families of where to
start once their child has been identified with an LD.
to be hopeful, practical, and accessible for both
parent and the child.
technology to be effective and efficient tool for the
child and not a solution afterthought.
to break down silos of the many diagnoses and labels
and instead look at the whole child – mental,
emotional, physical wellbeing so they can truly
thrive.
WE WANT
Manifesto

2. When?
N O V E M B E R 5 , 2 0 1 6
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W W W . S H I F T Y O U R T H I N K I N G L D . C O M
Where?
C E N T R E F O R H E A L T H &
S A F E T Y I N N O V A T I O N
M I S S I S S A U G A , O N T A R I O
Shift Your Thinking is a real world and online
support community for parents with kids that have
LDs and anxiety. The upcoming Summit is about
embracing how your child learns and copes. Your
child is designed to think and feel the way they do
and its time to make a plan around this. Expert
speakers, tools and practical advice will be shared
during this extraordinary day.
What?